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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorHeckedy Peg
Audrey Wood, Don Wood · 32 pages
A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.
Beauty and the Beast
Walt Disney Company · 42 pages
SPOILER ALERT!! Classic tale of Beauty meets Beast, they fall in love, the spell attached to him is broken, he turns into a handsome Prince ''....and they believe they would live happily ever AFTER.'' (WorldCat Review):The story of Belle, whose beauty and kindness transform a horrible Beast into a handsome prince. (LibraryThing Review): Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful
The Rough-Face Girl
Rafe Martin, David Shannon · 32 pages
In this Algonquin Indian version of the Cinderella story, the Rough-Face Girl and her two beautiful but heartless sisters compete for the affections of the Invisible Being.
The Frog Prince, Continued
Jon Scieszka · 32 pages
After the frog turns into a prince, he and the Princess do not live happily ever after and the Prince decides to look for a witch to help him remedy the situation.
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
Ed Young · 32 pages
Three sisters staying home alone are endangered by a hungry wolf who is disguised as their grandmother.
Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave
Marianna Mayer
A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilisa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga, who in turn sets in motion the events which lead to the once ill-treated girl's marrying the tzar.
Cinderella
Ruth Sanderson · 32 pages
Although she is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, a kind-hearted young woman manages to attend the palace ball with the help of her fairy godmother.
The Three Ninja Pigs
Corey Rosen Schwartz · 134 pages
Practice makes perfect in this kick-butt fractured fairy tale. Why does this wolf think he can come to town and blow all the houses down? These three little pigs just aren't going to take it from that bully anymore! The first starts aikido lessons---he'll make mincemeat out of that wolf! His brother learns a little jujitsu--he'll chop that guy to pieces! But when the wolf actually appears, i
Interstellar Cinderella
Deborah Underwood · 37 pages
Once upon a planetoid, amid her tools and sprockets, a girl named Cinderella dreamed of fixing fancy rockets. With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stell
Cinder Edna
Ellen Jackson · 32 pages
Once upon a time there were two girls who lived next door to each other. Cinder Edna was forced to work for her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, just as her neighbor, Cinderella, was. But Cinder Edna did things a bit differently. When Cinderella was done with her chores, she sat among the cinders to keep warm, thinking about her troubles. Edna, on the other hand, had learned a thing o
Beauty and the Beast
Max Eilenberg · 64 pages
A beautiful daughter dreams of meeting a handsome prince, but in order to save her father's life, she leaves home to live with a terrible, frightening beast. Though her patron is hideous, his disarming generosity slowly leads to a surprising connection.
The Little Mermaid
Walt Disney Company, Stephanie Calmenson
A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the heart of the prince she loves.
Little Red
Bethan Woollvin · 32 pages
A striking new interpretation of the beloved Little Red Riding Hood story - with a dark and witty twist. Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on her way through the woods to visit her sick grandmother. The wolf is hungry, and Red Riding Hood looks tasty, so he hatches a dastardly plan, gobbles up Grandma and lies in wait. So far, so familiar. But this Little Red Riding Hood is not easily fooled, an
Thumbelina
Hans Christian Andersen · 32 pages
Thumbelina is one of the most charming and childlike tales of the great Danish story-teller, Hans Christian Andersen. It is presented in a brief retelling, with pictures by Gustaf Tenggren, the Swedish-American artist whose pictures are loved by children everywhere.
Snow White
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 48 pages
Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.
Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Alex T. Smith · 32 pages
Little Red is on her way to visit Auntie Rosie with a basket of goodies and some spot medicine. Along the way she meets the Very Hungry Lion. The Lion is eager to gobble up Little Red. The Lion's plan doesn't work out the way he wanted. Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion is a fractured fairy tale version of Little Red Riding Hood. It's a classic fairy tale with a safari twist!
Cinderella Skeleton
Robert D. San Souci · 32 pages
This book is a rhyming retelling of the story of a young woman who finds her prince at a Halloween ball despite the efforts of her wicked stepmother. The main characters are skeletons. Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a ghoul can be. Poor Cinderella has no one to help her hang the cobwebs and arrange dead flowers -- certainly not her evil stepsisters. But the Halloween Ball is jus
East Of The Sun & West Of The Moon
Mercer Mayer · 44 pages
The Moon, Father Forest, Great Fish of the Sea, and North Wind help a maiden rescue her true love from a troll princess in a faraway kingdom.
Walt Disney's Cinderella
Mary Blair · 64 pages
With the help of her fairy godmother, a kitchen maid mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters attends the palace ball where she meets the prince of her dreams.
Little Red Riding Hood
Trina Schart Hyman, Johann Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm · 32 pages
On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.
Outside Over There
Maurice Sendak · 40 pages
With Papa off to sea and Mama despondent, Ida must go outside over there to rescue her baby sister from goblins who steal her to be a goblin's bride.
Kate and the Beanstalk
Mary Pope Osborne · 36 pages
In this version of the classic tale, a girl climbs to the top of a giant beanstalk, where she uses her quick wits to outsmart a giant and make her and her mother's fortune.
Hansel and Gretel
Rika Lesser, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm